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Concept: Boreal [Eriophorum scheuchzeri] fens in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/D2.212
Preferred label Boreal [Eriophorum scheuchzeri] fens
Definition [Eriophorum scheuchzeri]-dominated fen swards of boreal regions of the Palaearctic domaine, in particular of subalpine to middle alpine levels of the boreoalpine and arctoalpine mountains of Fennoscandia, dominated by [Eriophorum scheuchzeri] associated with a continuous brown moss carpet mostly of [Drepanocladus exannulatus], with [Philonotis fontana], occupying often snow-patch covered, waterlogged substrates. [Carex lachenalii] is characteristic in Fennoscandia; the vascular plant cortège may also include [Calamagrostis stricta], [Cardamine pratensis], [Carex bigelowii], [Deschampsia cespitosa], [Equisetum arvense], [Eriophorum angustifolium], [Juncus biglumis], [Koenigia islandica], [Omalotheca supina] ([Gnaphalium supinum]), [Poa pratensis], [Ranunculus reptans], [Salix herbacea], [Saxifraga stellaris].
Notation D2.212
Status Valid
Status Modified 2014-01-31
Accepted Date 2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
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Has exact match